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APPARATUS FOR WASHING WARPS.

No. 595,302. Patented Dec. 14,1897.

llniTnn STATES PATENT Unmet.

OT O HALLENSLEBEN, OF HILDEN, GERMANY.

APPARATUS FOR WASHING WARP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 595,302, dated December14, 1897. Application filed May 17 1897. Serial No. 686,968. (No modemTo (all 1071,0722 it ntm l concern.-

Be it known that I, Orro HALLENSLEBEN, a subject of the King of Prussia,German Emperor, and a resident of Hilden, in the Province of the Rhine,German Empire, have invented a new and useful Apparatus for Steaming orAging and XVashing the Colored Threads Intended for the Production ofSmyrna Carpets and the Like, of which the following is an exactspecification.

This invention refers in general to apparatus for treating and preparingthreads that are intended for the production of Smyrna carpets and thelike, and in particular to that kind of said apparatus in which acomparatively large number of threads, the number depending on thenumber of carpets that are to receive the same pattern, extend oneparallel to the other in a straight line, and are similarly colored inthat position by aid of rolls, rollers, small boards, or any other ofthe means known for this purpose. The threads are supported in saidposition by parallel wires or bars arranged reetangularly to thethreads, the distances between said wires or bars being preferably madedependent on the unit of length of threadthat is to say, the shortestlength which one color can be applied to if that color shall properlyappear in the pattern.

Coloring the threads with the known apparatus before referred to has notmade difficulties, but steaming and washing the colored threads was ahard task, because the apparatus in question was not designed for suchpurposes and could not, therefore, be used for the same. The threads,which, if they are intended for large carpets, have sometimes a lengthup to forty meters, had to be removed from the coloring apparatus and tobe conveyed to and into the steaming apparatus, and thereafter they hadto be taken up a second time for being washed. Handling threads of suchor similar lengths is obviously very inconvenient, and there are in thecase in question the great drawbacks that, first, on the freshly-coloredthreads being transported to the steaming apparatus the colors arerubbed one into another, and, second, on the steamed threads being movedto and fro in the washing-tub light colors could be stained by dark oneson coming in contact with the same.

Handling the threads with such care as is necessary for avoiding suchoccurrences caused a loss of time, which was the greater as theapparatus had to be stopped until the frame carrying the said parallelwires or bars, or supporting the threads by the latter, was refilledwith fresh threads.

The object of my present invention is to do away with all thesedrawbacks, and I attain this purpose in general by, first, furnishingtwo of said thread -receiving frames with wheels; second, providing forthese frames two pairs of horizontal rails, both pairs in the samestraight line and located in one plane; third, arranging the steamingchamber or chest between said two pairs of rails and furnishing it alsowith two pairs of rails, one of these pairs being located outside thesteaming chamber or chest and the other inside the same, and this pairextending also in the direction of and lying in a plane with the twopairs of rails first mentioned, and, fourth, providing means for movingthe latter from their ordinary places opposite to the ends of thesteaming chamber or chest to places opposite to the ends of the exteriorpair of rails of this apparatus and for connecting the several pairs ofrails with each other.

After one of the wheeled frames aforementioned has received theparallely-arranged threads to be treated and prepared for the purpose inquestion said threads are first colored in the ordinary way, then theneighboring door of the steaming chamber or chest is opened, theinterior pairof rails of the sameis connected to the respective pair ofrails carrying said wheeled frame,and the latter is moved into saidcasing, when the connection of the rails is broken, the door of thesteaming-chest closed, and steam let enter the said casing, so that nowthe color is fixed. This being finished, the other door of the box orchest is opened, the interior pair of rails is connected with therespective other pair, and the wheeled frame is removed from thesteaming box or chest and shoved upon said other pair, when the steamedthreads are conveyed from the wheeled frame to a washing-trough, whichis so arranged and constructed that the threads cannot possibly losetheir proper relative position. During all this another wheeled framehas been covered with a fresh set of threads and brought upon the firstpair of rails. The manner in which this is brought about will presentlybe described. After the wheeled frame first mentioned has been freed ofthe steamed threads the pair of rails carrying that frame at that timeis so moved that it gets in line with the exterior pair of rails of thesteaming box or chest. The wheeled frame is then shoved upon saidexterior pairs of rails, whereas the other wheeled frame, with itsthreads, is shoved upon the interior pair of rails of the steaming-chestor is shoved into this chest, respectively. Vhile now the steaming iseffected, the position of the movable pairs of rails is reversed, sothat the first wheeled frame can be shoved upon the first pair of rails,whereas the second wheeled frame, with its steamed threads, can beshoved upon the other movable pair of rails, and so on.

In order to make my invention more clear,

I refer to the accompanying drawings, in

which similar letters denote similar parts throughout the several views,and in which- Figure 1 is a side view of one end of the whole apparatus,and Fig. 2 is a side view of the other end of the same. Fig. 3 shows theleft-hand part of Fig. 1 drawn on a larger scale, and Fig. 4 is a frontview of this part. Fig. 5 is a side view of an end of thesteaming-chest. Fig. 6 is a front view of this chest; and Fig. 7 is avertical cross-section through the same, the section being Taken on line14 15 of Fig. 5. Fig. 8 shows the right-hand part of Fig. 2 drawn on alarger scale. Fig. 9 is a plan of this part, and Fig. 10 is a verticalcross-section in line 16 17 of Fig. 8. Fig. 11 is a plan of an end ofthe wheeled frame. Fig. 12 is an end view of this frame, and Fig. 13 isa side view of a part of the same.

For the sake of distinctness I prefer to commence the detailed partof myspecification with the description of the last-mentioned threefigures-i. 6., with the wheeled frame that receives the threads. Saidframe consists of two angular iron bars a 0,, arranged parallel one tothe other and connected by flat iron bars ta The upper or horizontalparts of the angular iron bars are furnished with bearings a for thereception of flanged wheels at, and are further provided with pins a forholding the wires C66, that support the threads. The latter areindicated in Fig. 6 by a set of broken parallel lines. The length of theframe Ct at d amounts to about forty meters, and the breadth is suchthat from fifty to one hundred threads may their upper ends the rails e.The means for operating the movable parts e t'. e., for raising themtogether with the rails cwill be described hereinafter.

The steaming apparatus consists of a longish box or chest t', Figs. 1,2, 5, and 7, which is supported by standards i, and is provided at eachend with a door t Figs. 5 and 6. The latter is hinged to the chest 9; bythe bolt 1' and is furnished with three sliding bolts '5 that areconnected to a disk 1' by means of connecting-rods i The disk 2' Fig. 6,has attached to it a cog-wheel 2' Fig. 5, that meshes with a pinion iand the latter has attached to it a double-armed handlever 2', Fig. 6,by aid of which the sliding bolts may be moved to and fro, as will beclear without a further description.

The steaming-chest 1' is furnished with two pairs of rails, one pair, 00, Fig. 7, being arranged inside said chest, and the other, 0 0, Figs. 5and 6, outside or above the same, said other pair of rails beingsupported by standards 0 While the wheeled frame a a (1 having thethreads stretched out upon it, is supported by the rails e, the threadsare colored in any of the known ways-for instance, as mentioned at thecommencement of the preamble of the specification. The colors require,then, fixingi'. 6., the'colored threads require steaming-and for thispurpose the wheeled frame is shoved from the rails e to and upon therails 0 or into the steamingchest 2', respectively, the rails 0 beingconnected with the rails e by separate intermediate rails M, Fig. 1,which are connected with the rails e and o in any suitable manner.

After the wheeled frame, with the colored threads, has been shoved intothe chesti the door i Fig. 1, is closed, and steam is allowed to enterthe said chest, when the colors become fixed to the threads. The fixingbeing finished, the other door of the steaming-chest is opened and theinterior rails o of said chest are connected, by aid of the intermediaterails 'Lb aforementioned, with the rails 1", Figs. 2, 8, and 10, thatare also supported by vertical standards e 6 the parts e beingstationary and the parts e being movable or displaceable within saidparts 6, all exactly as has been described above with regard to Figs. 1and 3.

As shown more distinctly in Fig. 10, the lower ends of the movable parts6 of the standards are cogged or turned into racks, respectively. Eachof these racks' meshes with a pinion r, secured to a shaft r Thebearings r for this shaft are fixed to the stationary parts 6 of thestandards. Each of the shafts r is furnished with a chain-wheel T andall the chain-wheels belonging to one set of standards are connected bya common chain r Figs. 2 and 8, so that all the shafts r Fig. 10, withtheirpinions 7', maybe turned and all the racks 6 with the rails 1', maybe raised at a time. All this refers also to the rails e and theirstandards, which are constructed in exactly the same manner as has justbeen described.

To operate the chains r in the manner described, the first of thestandards e 6 Fig. 3, and the last of them, Fig. 8, is connected with aframe 8, that supports three shafts s 3 arranged one above the other.The shaft 3 has a pinion s, Fig. 9, and a crank The shaft 5 has acog-wheel s meshing with the pinion s and a pinion The shaft .9 has acog-wheel s meshing with the pinion s and a chain-wheel s", over whichpasses the chain "1' of the respective set of chainwheels 4'". Thus therespective chain 4' is moved in one or the other direction by turningthe crank s correspondingly. A similar set of shafts and cogwheels issupported by the frame 3 and the other end of the apparatus, asdistinctly represented in Figs. 3 and 4.

As shown in Figs. 2, 8, and 10, a trough 50 extends along the respectivepart of the ap paratus. Said trough is the washing-trough and contains anumber of hook-like holders to, Fig. 10, which are hinged to brackets 50and are oscillated by eccentrics 00 secured to a shaft 0c". The latteris connected with the driving-shaft .e' of the machine, Fig. 9, bybevel-wheels z The shaft c has a fast and a loose pulley 2".

After the wheeled frame a a a with the colored and steamed threads, hasarrived upon the rails 7*, Figs. 2, 8, and 10, the threads are taken offthe supporting-wires a, Fig. 11, of said frame and laid down into thehooks m, Fig. 10. Owing to the short distance between said frame andsaid hooks the threads may be transported from one place to the otherwithout the least difficulty, and there is no danger whatever of thethreads getting entangled or parts of different colors coming in contactwith each other. After the whole length of the threads has been put downinto the hooks the shafts .2 and 41: are caused to rotate so as tooscillate the hooks as by aid of the eccentrics :0 Of course the trougha: is filled with water and the threads are washed within that water, sothat the inspissating substance present within the color is therebyremoved. The washing-water is then led off and the threads are removedfrom the hooks :11, when they are dried and are carried off to the loomfor being worked into Smyrna carpets and the like.

\Vhen the wheeled frame is empty of threads, the rails 1', together withsaid frame, are raised up to the height of the exterior rails o of thesteaming-chest i by means of the wheelwork s .9 the chain 0 the chainwheels 7- the pinions r, and the racks e, and the said frame is thenshoved upon said rails 0. IV hen in this position, the wheeled framereceives a fresh layer of threads.

There cooperates with the apparatus described not one wheeled frame buttwo. Durin g the time in which the steamed threads are taken off therespective frame and put into the washing-trough the other frame, whichthen has already been provided with a fresh layer of threads, stands onthe rails e, and these threads are imprinted with the colors, and during the time in which the empty frame standing upon the exterior railso of the steaming chest receives the fresh layer of threads the otherframe is inclosed within said chest and the threads of this frame aresubjected to the action of the steam. This being finished,the respectivewheeled frame is transported to and upon the rails r and the respectiveset of threads is transported into the washing-trough, whereas thewheeled frame that was first in use is shoved upon the rails e, thelatter having prior thereto been raised to theheight of the rails o bythe means aforedescribed. The rails, together with the respectivewheeled frame, are then lowered to their normal position and the workgoes further on in the manner described.

Having thus fully described the nature of this invention, what I desireto secure by Letters Patent of the United States is 1. In an apparatusfor steaming and washing the colored threads intended for the productionof Smyrna carpets and the like, the combination with two pairs of railsextending in one direction and located in one plane, means forsupporting said rails, and a wheeled frame supported by the same, of asteaming box or chest arranged between said two pairs of rails in linewith the same; two other pairs of rails arranged one inside, the otheroutside of, and parallel to, said chest, and means for displacing thefirst two pairs of rails so as to bring them in line with thelast-mentioned pair; said wheeled frame being adapted to receive thethreads, and the said chest being adapted to receive the said frame, forthe purpose as described.

2. In an apparatus for steaming and washing the colored threads intendedfor'the production of Smyrna carpets and the like, the combination withtwo pairs of rails extending in one direction and located in one plane,displaceable racks supporting said rails, standards guiding said racks,shafts supported by said standards, pinions secured to said shafts andgearing with the racks, means for rotating the shafts, and a wheeledframe supported by the rails, of a steaming box or chest arrangedbetween said two pairs of rails in line with the same; two other pairsof rails arranged one within, the other above, and parallel to, saidchest; said wheeled frame being adapted to receive the threads, and thesaid chest being adapted to receive the said frame, for the purpose asdescribed.

3. In an apparatus for steaming and washing the colored threads intendedfor the production of Smyrna carpets and the like, the combination withtwo pairs of rails extending in one direction and located in one plane,displaceable racks supporting said rails, standards guiding said racks,shafts supported by said standards, pinions secured to said shafts andgearing with the racks, chainwheels also secured to the shafts, a chainconnecting all the chain-wheels belonging to one of said pairs of rails,another chain connecting all the chain-Wheels belonging to the otherpair of rails, means for driving said chain-wheels, and a wheeled framesupported by the same, of a steaming box or chest arranged between saidtwo pairs of rails in line with the same; two other pairs of railsarranged one inside, the other outside of, and parallel to, said chest;said wheeled frame being adapted to receive the threads, and the saidchest being adapted to receive the said frame, for the purpose asdescribed.

4. In an apparatus for steaming and washing the colored threads intendedfor the production of Smyrna carpets and the like, the combination withtwo pairs of rails extending in one direction and located in one plane,

means for supporting said rails, and a wheeled frame supported by thesame, of a steaming box or chest arranged between said two pairs ofrails in line with the same, and a washingtrough arranged near andparallel to the second pair of said rails; two other pairs of railsarranged one inside, the other outside of, and parallelly to, saidchest, and means for displacing the first two pairs of rails so as tobring them in line with the last-mentioned pair; movable hook likeholders hanging down into said trough, and means for oscillating saidholders, for the purpose as described.

In testimony whereof I have signed this specification in the presence oftwo subscribin g Witnesses.

OTTO HALLENSLEBEN.

\Vitn esses:

ERNEST ANDRE, W'ILLIAM ESSENWEIN.

